The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

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Summary: Unique English-language edition of brilliant letter-writer
Review: The most complete English-language edition of Benjamin's letters reveals the German author dealing with characteristic and unrelenting vigour and insight in a wide range of issues from Jewishness and Zionism to European literature, book-collecting and, of course, letter-writing. Yet, with the beginning of each of the 332 letters included in the volume, the reader is brought a little closer to Benjamin's tragic suicide, as he attempts to escape the consequences of the second world war